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Definition of Equites
1. n. pl An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
Definition of Equites
1. a privileged military class of ancient Rome [n]
Medical Definition of Equites
1. An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order. Origin: L, pl. Of eques a horseman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equites
Literary usage of Equites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1830)
"THE equites at first did not form a distinct order in the state. ... Servius Tullius
made eighteen centuries of equites; he chose twelve new centuries from ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"18) expressly says, that the equites were chosen by Servius out of the richest
and most illustrious families ; and Cicero (De Hep. ii. ..."
3. Roman Antiquities =: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1814)
"THE equites at first did not form a distinct order in tht State. ... The number
of the equites was afterwards increased, first by Tullus Hostilius, ..."
4. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1849)
"The equites, from their jealousy and hatred of the senate and of ... As soon as
the equites had once established the system of regarding only their own ..."
5. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by William Smith (1899)
"His next step was to gain over the equites, who had rendered efficient service
to Cicero in his consulship, and had hitherto supported the aristo- ..."
6. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"Thus the titles of feudal lords were retained—duces, comites, equites, milites—with
all the paraphernalia of brute force which the harsh mind of northern ..."
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